Lutheran West was blown away by the visiting Clearview Clippers last night, falling behind 8-0 in the top of the first inning and never really participating in the game.

Junior Tyler Cerny had the difficult task of starting the game in the gusting wind, and was not very effective, giving up 14 run on 10 hits. Cerny struggled all night with leaving his pitches up and Clearview was happy to capitalize. With the wind whipping straight out, high fly balls turned into towering doubles and triples.

To make matters worse, LW’s outfielders turned in one of the worst fielding performances in recent history. Sure they dropped zero fly balls, but singles were routinely turned into triples as LW outfielders had balls bounce under, over, and through them as they took poor angles to hits.

Seven of Cerny’s 14 runs were charged as unearned.

Offensively LW posted five runs—including a modest three run rally in the fourth to cut the lead to 14-4, but a six run fifth inning off of sophomore Eric Szczepinski put the game away.